by Susan | Jun 1, 2026 | Monuments
Anti-apartheid activist Solomon Mahlangu was just 23 years old when he was hanged in the gallows of Pretoria Central Prison. His remains were moved to his birthplace of Mamelodi in 1993, after being buried in Atteridgeville for 24 years. This monument was unveiled in...
by Susan | Aug 29, 2022 | Monuments
On 16 June 1976, at the age of 12, Hector Pieterson was shot by police during the student uprising in Soweto. Although not the first to be shot, he was the first of 23 students to die. The picture taken by news photographer Sam Nzima of his body being carried by...
by Susan | Feb 3, 2020 | Monuments
On 26 June 1955, more than 3,000 representatives of resistance organizations made their way through police cordons to gather on a dusty square in Kliptown, 40 kilometers south of Johannesburg. This “Congress of the People” met to draw up the Freedom Charter, an...
by Susan | Apr 29, 2019 | Monuments
Memorial to the Six Million in Johannesburg’s Westpark Cemetery pays tribute to the Jewish men, women and children who lost their lives during the Second World War. The monument depicts six bronze fists, each five feet high, bursting out of the ground as a protest...
by Susan | Nov 6, 2017 | Monuments
This monument recalls the brutal murder of seven young black activists by South African security forces in 1986. The young men were on their way to what they believed to be a job interview in a minivan driven by an undercover security officer, when they stopped at a...
